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Objectives:

• Heighten public awareness about the importance of mental health, and to gain understanding and improve attitudes about mental disorders
• Promote mental health and prevent mental disorders
• Improve the care, treatment and recovery of people with mental disorders

As the only worldwide grassroots and multidisciplinary advocacy and public education organization concerned with all aspects of mental health, the WFMH achieves its goals through:

• Public educational programs
• Research through collaborating centers
• Consultation to the United Nations
• A regional structure for organizing project work at the community level

1. Transcultural Mental Health in a Changing World: "Building a Global Response" October 29-31, 2007: Minneapolis, MN

• The Role of Transcultural Mental Health in the Global Mental Health Movement
• Understanding the Impact of Culture on the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery of Depression and Associated Disorders
• Promoting and Supporting Culturally Appropriate Children’s Mental Health Services
• Consumer/Service User, Family/Caregiver, and Mental Health Professional Issues in a Multi-Cultural Mental Health Services Environment
• Cultural Aspects and Impact of Alcohol and Substance Abuse and Addiction
• Innovative Programs, Policies, and Strategies Addressing Transcultural Mental Health Issues
• Effective Transcultural Mental Health (Public Awareness and Promotion Strategies, Defeating Stigma)
• Public Policy and Advocacy Issues Around Multicultural Mental Health
• Reducing the burden of disease of Depression through enhanced culturally appropriate service delivery planning, policy, service delivery and promotion
• Building a Culturally Appropriate Mental Health Workforce
• The Influence of Language in Culturally Appropriate Mental Health Service Delivery
• Expanding Stakeholders: Public School Administrators and Educators, Spiritual Leaders, Indigenous Healers
• Reducing the burden of disease of Depression and the risk of suicide through enhanced culturally appropriate service delivery planning, policy, service delivery and promotion
• Needs of Special Populations in a Multicultural Mental Health Service System: Children and Youth, Women, Elderly, Ethnic Minorities, Displaced Persons and Refugees
• Psychological Wellness in Another World: Challenges and Opportunities in Adjusting to
• Life in Unfamiliar Surroundings
• Addressing the Needs of Patient/Service Users and Family/Caregivers in a Multicultural Mental Health Service System
• Applying Peer Support and Recovery Principles in a Multicultural Service Environment
• Culture, Spirituality and Mental Health
• Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Culture and Mental Disorders
• Innovative Multicultural Mental Health Service, Education and Awareness, and Community Support Projects and Programs

Featured presenters:

• Ronald Wintrob, MD, Butler Hospital, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior,, Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
• Manana Sharashidze, Chair, Georgian Association for Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
• Mario Hernandez, Director, Division of Training, Research, Evaluations and Demonstrations [TREaD]; Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Child & Family Studies, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa
• Susan Bergeson, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, Chicago, Illinois
• Abd Malak, AM, Executive Director of Workforce and Organisational Development, Sydney West Area Health Service; Associate Professor, Multicultural Mental Health Australia
• H Westley Clark, Director, US Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

(This was kindly supplied by Ellen Mercer on 14 MAY 07.)